§ SAALCK Directors' Council Meeting
11:00 a.m., Friday, February 2, 2007
Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives
Frankfort, Kentucky
Attendance:
Laurene Zaporozhetz (Chair), Murray State University; Nancy Campbell, Northern Kentucky University; Carrie Cooper; Eastern Kentucky University; Carol Diedrichs, University of Kentucky; Elsie Pritchard, Morehead State University; Hannelore Rader, University of Louisville; Sheila Stuckey, Kentucky State University; Susan Brown, Transylvania University (AIKCU); Sheree Huber Williams, Jefferson Community and Technical College (KCTCS); Anne Abate, SWON Libraries.
Call to Order:
Laurene Zaporozhetz called the meeting to order at 11:33 a.m.
Minutes from Previous Meeting:
Elsie moved to approve the minutes from the December 1st meeting. The motion was seconded by Hannelore and unanimously approved.
Chair's Report:
Laurene had nothing to share.
Executive Director's Report:
- Anne distributed the latest SAALCK financial update.
- The SAALCK intern completed the marketing brochure. Anne will distribute it for comment.
- The SWON Libraries / SAALCK Member Experience Database (SSMED) was announced in January. There have been a few submissions so far. Anne encouraged everyone to at least submit their own information and attempt to get more staff to submit as well. The information will be made available once there are a reasonable number of entries.
- A new agreement was signed with 3M for the RFID product discount.
- Anne negotiated a contract with Portico. The company is interested in making a presentation for SAALCK in the Spring.
- The NetLibrary purchase group (NKU, WKU, EKU, Murray State) continues to operate well.
- Morehead has requested SFX training for one of their new employees. Anne will make arrangements to bring the training to the area and advertise it to both Kentucky libraries and the SWON Libraries membership. Carrie volunteered to host the meeting at EKU. Anne will work out the details and announce it by email to the group.
- Susan Brown will help Anne make arrangements for the joint meeting with AIKCU in April.
Reports on the SAALCK Website:
- Laurene reported that the Next Generation Library System Committee Report is available on the front page of the SAALCK website. Susan reported that the AIKCU office sent a letter of support for the funding that had been requested.
CCAO January Meeting:
Laurene reported that the meeting of the Council of Chief Academic Officers went very well and that they endorsed the Next Generation Library System Committee Report.
LUNCH with Wayne Onkst and several members of the KDLA staff
Collections Committee Report:
- The Committee was asked to continue to gather prices for ERM's—so we that information if funding is approved.
KY Education Network (KEN) Applications Subcommittee:
- Carol and Hannelore reported on the results of the survey that was conducted in December. A new streamlined survey will be coming that will ask us to assign priorities.
VLAC Update:
- Carol, Hannelore, and Elsie reported on the January 12 meeting. Enid recently sent out a message about Second Life. She wants to set up a formal workgroup within KYVL to talk about establishing a cyber city.
- Hannelore will contact Enid and share SAALCK's position is that there are some higher priority issues that KYVL should be spending time on now, and while we encourage librarians doing informal activities on Second Life and other social software, in our opinion, the informal group seems to be the right approach for the present time.
SCORE Metadata Group:
- Carol reported on the Southern Region Education Board (SREB) project called Sharable Content Object Repositories for Education (SCORE) that KYVC (Kentucky Virtual Campus) has joined. SAALCK will ask Eric Weig from the Kentuckiana Digital Library and Clara Potter from Morehead State to represent SAALCK on this group.
ALA Meeting Update:
- Carol, Hannelore, Carrie, and Laurene all attended ALA in Seattle and met with ILS vendors.
Discussion and Charge for Systems RFI Committee:
- Laurene and Carol will meet with Enid and Al Lind regarding:
- advocating for the funding request
- next steps if the funding is awarded
- expanding VLAC's Endeavor work group to include SAALCK, KDLA and AIKCU reps
- to explore hiring a consultant to assist the process
Next Meeting:
- The next meeting will be March 2nd at 11:00 a.m. in Louisville.
Future Agenda Items:
- Kentucky Virtual Campus
- Storage Facility
- Salary Survey Format and Options
- Last Copy in State—Book
- Last Copy in State—Print Journal
- Last Copy in State--Media
- Master List of Internship Opportunities in KY
- SAALCK Bylaws Review
- Dual Campus Program Database Needs
- Consortial Purchase of an Institutional Repository Product
- Future Workshops
Adjournment:
The meeting adjourned at 2:25 p.m.
Respectfully Submitted,
Anne K. Abate
SWON Libraries